Is Fukushima Radiation Causing the Epidemic of Dead and Starving Sea Lions In California?

At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die.

It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.” That will allow more scientists to join the search for the cause, Melin said.

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Even the pups that are making it are markedly underweight ….

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Rescuers have had to leave the worst of them in an effort to save the strongest ones, she said.

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Routine testing of seafood is being done by state and federal agencies and consumer safety experts are working with NOAA to find the problem.”No link has been established at this time between these sea lion strandings and any potential seafood safety issues,” NOAA said in a statement.

”They’re very sick,” said Keith Matassa, who runs the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach. His team is nursing 115 sea lions back to health. “A normal sea lion at this age — 8 to 9 months old — should be around 60, 70 pounds,” said Matassa. “We’re seeing them come into our center at 20 to 25 pounds, and really they look like walking skeletons.”

Biologists knew last spring that this year’s supply of anchovies and sardines could be limited, Boehm said.

“These two species of fish are an extremely important part of California sea lions’ diets, and females simply may not have been able to nurse their young sufficiently, resulting in abandonment, premature weaning and subsequent strandings,” he said.

Besides anchovies and sardines, sea lions also eat squid and other ocean creatures.

Few people want to see the ocean’s anchovy stocks wiped out by radiation either. That’s just the scenario that seemed to be developing, however, when reports coming out of Japan revealed that elevated levels of cesium-137 had been found in anchovies in the waters off Chiba, near Toky0—a direct result of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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In the big-fish-eats-little-fish way of the ocean, the radioactive contamination eventually gets passed up the food chain, concentrating in fats which get consumed and stored, until the isotopes finally come to rest in the very largest creature at the top of the food chain ….

Moreover, the Vancouver Sun reported in January 2012 that 94 per cent of the anchovies and 92 per cent of the sardines sold by the Japanese to Canada contained radioactive cesium. Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters; but others were made many hundreds of miles away in the open ocean.

(Note: there may be additional reasons for fluctuations in the numbers of anchovies and sardines other than radiation.)

Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats.

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“We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity,” said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage,” he said.

After California’s man and beast struggled to reach health and healing post Fukushima’s hydrogen explosion, we were attacked by a second wave of disease and death …. compliments of our genocidal government……

Certainly marine and human life have suffered from radiation poisoning, and sadly we continue in our attempt to overcome the deadly effects of radiation in our ocean… however the mass poisoning delivered from the chemtrail cowboys on behalf of our government is no accident….. it’s deliberate homicide.

On an April 5th TV news report, a California man was driving down the road and saw what he thought was a dog laying in the road.
He stopped to help it and discovered that it was a sea lion!
Sea lions are now crawling onto roads in search of food and help.
This sea lion was a pup and undernourished, and was taken in by Sea World of California.
This story shows how desperate these sea lion pups are that they’re crawling onto roads for help!

GWriters UK

About 4 months ago, there was a large number of sea lion pup strandings in Southern California. Over 1300 baby sea lions have stranded themselves and were found emaciated, dehydrated and enduring hypothermia. Scientists are still not sure what lead to these happenings that the sea lion pups have been cut off from their food supply. But I won’t be surprised if it has to do with the radiation accidents…

Dubbie

so sad!

t0pc0w

Hi, I’d like to propose another likely explanation: oceanic acidification. I’ve been researching the Fukishima issue all day, and I am no longer convinced that radiation sourced from the Fukishima reactors could cause this kind of damage to biological tissue. But oceanic acidification could. Here’s an article if you’d like to read up, from November 2013:

3 of my friends, none of them r promiscuous nor hang out togather, r showing ‘skin lesions’ on their faces- we live in the Los Angeles area…

johnblade

These events have not only continued since this article came out,2015 is already breaking records re; these sad die-offs & suffering of innocent creatures!! Inland it is manifesting itself as a wave of cancers & “wasting syndrome” aka “RAIDS” and any skeptics can easily confirm this by visiting their nearest cancer treatment facilities and ask ’em “hows business”??!! : ( As a post-311 cancer-caregiver,I already KNOW the answer!! So does anyone willing to let go of the conveniently govt.-programmed “denial” of anything that’s harmful to “their reality”,just wish there was some way to undo this crime against nature & humanity??!!

igrandunifier

Another friend, or wife or a friend, talked about her recent skin rash being id-ed by the Dr. as shingles…